Necktie-fastener



(No Model.)

A. A. WENTWORTH.

, NEGKTIE FASTENER.

Patented Dec. 3, 1889 NY PETERs-Phelo-Limogn hnr. wasnin mn, D. c

' stud-holding plate.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ALBERT A. WENTVVORTH,

OF MEROED, CAIIFORNI A.

' NECKTlE-FA STEN ER.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,386, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed March 6, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. WENT- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Merced, in the county of Merced and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my necktie, with shield or plate in position and slotted, and stud-holding plate removed. Fig. 2 is a back view, also in perspective, of the slotted and Fig. 3 is a front view of the same in perspective. Fig. 4 is a front view in perspective of Figs. 2 and 3, and Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of shield-plate, with spring-arms removed.

My invention relates especially to fasteners employed for securing a necktie or scarf to the person of the wearer, and has for its object the production of a device which is moderate in cost and more easy of adjustment and certain in action than devices heretofore employed for the purpose.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A and B are the locking and holding plates which comprise my invention. The former, or that plate represented by the letter A, is formed with two spring arms or hands a, a, conforming to the shape of the neck, while the lower part forms a shield. This plate is also pierced with a stud or pin hole I) and two transverse slots or openings 0 d to receive the holding-tongues of the plate 13, to be hereinafter described.

The openings h c d, as well as that represented at C", may be stamped from thin sheets of metal, comprising the plate and shield, and the whole covered, save and except the two slots and stud or pin hole, with cheaper material than that which forms the front or scarf portion.

The locking-plate B is stamped out and bent or curved as shown, and to the bent upper member is permanently 'fixed a stud or pin f, having a head or button 9 formed upon one end only. Beneath the pin is Serial No. 302,147. (No model.)

formed an outwardly projecting tongue it, while the lower end of the plate is slotted at 2', and has an upwardly-extending lip and a downwardly-extending pin K.

In practice the band of the shirt D is but toned to the head or button of the stud or pin f upon the reverse side of the upper bent member of the locking-plate B, with the pin projecting outward, as shown in Fig. 4, and the plate lying along the center plait of the shirt, in which position the button-holes of the col- .lar of the wearer receive the projecting pin or stud f, and thereupon the scarf, with its plate and band, is adjusted to the neck, the projecting pin of the locking-plate entering the hole or perforation b and the tongue h the transverse slot 0, in which position the scarf is slightly raised or pushed upwardly and the locking-plate drawn downwardly, so

that the lip j will catch on the upper slot at of the plate or shield A, whereby the tie is held firmly in place.

In order to' remove the tie quickly, the finger is applied to the lower end of the shield and the tie slightly raised, which releases the lip j from its catch and permits the wearer to instantly remove the tie from the neck.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The necktie-fastener herein described, which consists in a shield carrying a spring or flexible neck-band and provided with a hole or perforation' and an upper and lower transverse slot, in combination with a detachable locking-plate carrying a shirt band and collar holding pin or stud, as described.

2. In a necktie-fastener, the combination, 

